# bastir
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”). Cognate with French bâtir, from the same Germanic source.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [bəsˈti]
* IPA: (Valencia) [basˈtiɾ]
* Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

### Verb

bastir (first-person singular present basteixo, first-person singular preterite bastí, past participle bastit)
* (transitive) to build; to construct
    Synonyms: construir, edificar
* (transitive) to erect
    Synonyms: muntar, armar

#### Derived terms

* bastida
* bastidor
* bastigi
* bastiment
* desbastir

### Further reading

* “bastir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “bastir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “bastir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “bastir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese bastir, borrowed from Old French bastir (“to build”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /basˈtiɾ/

### Verb

bastir (first-person singular present basto, first-person singular preterite bastín, past participle bastido) bastir (first-person singular present basto, first-person singular preterite bastim or basti, past participle bastido, reintegrationist norm)
* (archaic) to build
* (archaic) to supply

#### Conjugation

$^1$Less recommended.

#### Derived terms

* abastecer
* bastida
* bastidor
* bastimento

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “bastir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bast”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bastir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* “bastir”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bastir”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Middle French
### Etymology

Old French bastir.

### Verb

bastir
* to build; to construct
** 1532, François Rabelais, Pantagruel:D'iceulx fauldroit bastir les murailles en les arrangeant en bonne symmetrie d'architecture, & mettant les plus grans au premiers rancz, et puis en taluant à doz d'asne arrangeant les moyens & finablement les petitz.From this, we would have to build the walls with a good symmetrical architecture, putting the biggest ones at the bottom, and then by mounting the back of an ass, the middle-sized one and finally the smallest ones.

#### Descendants

* French: bâtir

## Occitan
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

bastir
* to build; to construct

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Old French
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *bastīre.

### Verb

bastir
* to build; to construct

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a second-group verb (ending in -ir, with an -iss- infix). Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Derived terms

* bastissement

#### Descendants

* Middle French: bastir
** French: bâtir
*** Haitian Creole: bati
* Norman: baïr
* Picard: bâti
* Walloon: bati (Liégeois), bâti (Charleroi)
* → Middle English: basten
** English: baste

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese bastir, borrowed from Old French bastir (“to build”).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /basˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [basˈt͡ʃi(h)]
* (Brazil) IPA: /basˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [basˈt͡ʃi(h)]
** (São Paulo) IPA: /basˈt͡ʃi(ɾ)/
** (Rio de Janeiro) IPA: /baʃˈt͡ʃi(ʁ)/ [baʃˈt͡ʃi(χ)]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /basˈt͡ʃi(ɻ)/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bɐʃˈtiɾ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /bɐʃˈtiɾ/
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /bɐʃˈti.ɾi/
* Hyphenation: bas‧tir

### Verb

bastir (first-person singular present basto, first-person singular preterite basti, past participle bastido)
* to felt (a hat)
* to pad, quilt
    Synonym: acolchoar
* (archaic) to build

#### Derived terms

* bastidor

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan bastir (“to build”), borrowed from Frankish *bastijan (“to sew, weave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /basˈtiɾ/ [basˈt̪iɾ]
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: bas‧tir

### Verb

bastir (first-person singular present basto, first-person singular preterite bastí, past participle bastido)
* (dated) to build
* (dated) to provide

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

### Further reading

* “bastir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10